Telecommunications Field Engineer
What the work is
Plans, designs, commissions and monitors complex telecommunications networks and associated equipment, provides technical advice and information, and identifies complex problems and initiates action to resolve them.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Plans and designs telecommunications networks and associated equipment
- Commissions and monitors the installation of telecommunications networks and equipment
- Provides technical advice and information to clients and colleagues
- Identifies complex problems in telecommunications networks and equipment
- Initiates action to resolve complex problems in telecommunications networks and equipment
- Tests and evaluates the performance of telecommunications networks and equipment
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the field team of a fictional telecommunications and IT services company, working on towers, offices and server rooms. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A network that was down for a whole office comes back and everyone cheers
- You trace a strange fault to one loose connector and fix it in minutes
- A neat, labelled cabinet that the next technician will thank you for
Hard days
- Working at height in hot, windy weather to reach an antenna
- An outage that affects hundreds of people while you are still looking for the cause
- A customer who is certain you caused the problem and will not be told otherwise
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 314133, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.